The Skeletal Wellness Institute for Cancer™, Maintaining Bone Health (SWI) understands how important the privacy of personal information is to our users. This Privacy Policy will tell you what information we collect about you and about your use of the SWI website and its services. It will explain the choices you have about how your personal information is used and how we protect that information. We urge you to read this Privacy Policy carefully.

While you may use some of the functions of the SWI website without registration, some of the specific sections on our website require registration. If you use our website without registering, the only information we collect will be Non-Personal Information through the use of Cookies. If you choose to register with our website, we require you to submit Personally Identifiable Information. You are responsible for ensuring the accuracy of the Personally Identifiable Information you submit. Inaccurate information will affect the information you receive when using our website and tools and our ability to contact you as intended in this Privacy Policy. For example, your e-mail address should be kept current because that it is how we communicate with you.

Even if you do not register, we collect Non-Personal Information about your use of our website.

We collect Non-Personal Information about your use of our website through the use of Cookies. Every computer is assigned a different Cookie by SWI. The information collected by Cookies (i) allows us to statistically monitor how many people are using our website, (ii) how many people open our e-mails, and (iii) for what purposes these actions are being taken. Cookies are also used to facilitate a user's log-in, as navigation aides, and as session timers, but not to retain Personally Identifiable Information about you.

Your browser software can be set to reject all Cookies. Most browsers offer instructions on how to reset the browser to reject Cookies in the "Help" section of the toolbar. If you reject our Cookies, certain of the functions and conveniences of our website may not work properly, but you do not have to accept our Cookies in order to use our website productively. We do not link Non-Personal Information from Cookies to Personally Identifiable Information without your permission, and we do not use Cookies to collect or store Personally Identifiable Information about you.

We collect Personally Identifiable Information that you provide to us when you register on the SWI website and/or when you update your profile. We use the Personally Identifiable Information that you provide to respond to your questions, provide you the specific services you select, send you e-mails about website updates, and inform you of significant changes to this Privacy Policy.

At registration and at various times as you use the SWI website, you will be given the option of receiving recurring information via e-mail from SWI. These e-mails will be of a general nature and will not disclose your unique characteristics. At the time you sign up for our e-mail communications or any time thereafter, you can choose to opt-out of receiving additional e-mails from SWI.

In order to subscribe to such e-mails, we need your contact information, including your name and e-mail address.

As part of the collection, processing, and use of personal data, any necessary transmission referring to such data will remain secure and under our sole control, and we will guard against any misuse of such data.

The Skeletal Wellness Institute may share the personal data you provide with other organizations such as accrediting bodies. Such organizations are contractually prohibited from disclosing confidential information, including any personal data SWI shares with them.

The SWI website may contain "links" to other websites of affiliated companies and/or third parties. Although we attempt only to link to websites that share our high standards and respect for privacy, we do not monitor or control the information collected when you elect to access a third-party link. The treatment of personal data by the operators of third-party websites may be different from ours. Accordingly, we are not responsible for the content or the data privacy practices employed by third-party websites.